iGo to introduce a bevy of new products at CES 2009

iGo is no stranger when it comes to accessories for notebooks as well as mobile electronic devices, with chargers being one of their main forte ... to standard power products, which is a whole lot if you’re running a huge office building. Three ... iGo laptop cleaning kit: Premium cleaning kit with six tools to safely clean your laptop and other [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:30:53

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Listed Building Grades & Restoration

Buildings and architecture are all around us and we often fail to notice ... repair work and cleaning the buildings brick work. Building restoration is basically about maintaining ... . From great big office blocks, cathedrals and churches, town halls to guildhalls, there are bound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:12:24

Pioli: Hail to the Chiefs; Former Pats Personnel Director Takes Chiefs GM Job

Scott Pioli has been named Kansas City Chiefs new Head of Football Operations. Pioli 43, had been with the Patriots for nine years ... . People inside the Patriots complex were reported as saying that Pioli was cleaning out his office ... forward to his leadership in building a championship organization.” Pioli’s old boss Robert Kraft [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:55:28

Health Care Facilities: A Profitable Niche for Your Cleaning Business

A growing area that offers plenty of opportunity and potential profit for building service contractors is cleaning health care facilities. Besides hospitals, there are nursing homes, doctor’s offices, clinics, hospices, and dental offices that all need cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 07:59:53

For janitorial service please Contact us at 877-880-4110

Higest quality janitorial service & office cleaning services.Universal Building Maintenance Inc. is committed to providing our customers with the highest level of quality green certified service http://ubmaintenance.com/blog/contact-us/ read more [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 07:38:30

Understanding Ergonomics and How it Affects Your Cleaning Business

Ergonomics has been a “buzzword” throughout many office buildings these days, ... were fifth most likely to be injured on the job. In the janitorial industry, many of the injuries ... forcing the worker to fit the equipment. The objective of using ergonomic products is to reduce stress [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 03:57:47

Floor-Cleaning Robot In Japanese Office Building

This bulky janitor robot was recently developed and employed by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Sumitomo Corporation in Osaka City, Japan to clean their floors. This bot, operated by Reibi [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:33:18

Protect your home

Protect your home from pests. Don’t let the beauty of your home lost its value. Contact the right persons now. Here at alphaecological ... pest control or commercial pest control such as at apartments, offices, buildings and real estates, you can get it here. Air duct cleaning is also an offered service. Give them a phone call and they’ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 14:59:42

Midnight Reg on ‘Right of Conscience’ for Health Workers Moves Forward

by Christina Jewett , ProPublica - President Bush signs the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ... against abortion (or any other procedure that rankles their conscience) sailed through final Office ... to a janitor cleaning an operating room. Read more... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 17:24:34

The Elevator

The Elevator By Angela Hunt (Blog, Website) Publisher: Mira Published on 2007 ISBN-13: 9780778327264 352 pages First sentence: ... and three women who ARE stuck in the elevator of a high-rise office building, and one man who risks his life ... marriage; and Isabel Suarez, a fugitive cleaning woman, has the darkest secret among them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 19:56:23

On the Road: Reno, Nevada

During the summer, John McCain’s Reno office was struggling to attract volunteers ... are the McCain and Obama Reno field offices. Republicans, of course, have long built up grassroots ... by the DNC 50-state program, they have been building party infrastructure by cleaning up voter files [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 18:59:00

$94 Million Refinancing Arranged by HFF for Luxury Manhattan Multifamily High-Rise

The New York and Hartford offices of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) ... cleaning service. In addition, 86% of the units have balconies or terraces with views of Midtown ... luxury multifamily building in Manhattan. HFF senior managing directors Mike Tepedino, Dana Brome [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:04:18

Sneaker

I left the house after the kids went to sleep and.... came to the office. To work. At 11:00 at night ... to the state. Organize my pile o' crap for taxes.No one works 3rd shift in this building. I scared the crap out of our cleaning people. They were more than a little bit surprised to see me.You [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:16:00

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler Closes 2 Refinancing Deals Totaling $115.5M

Luxury Manhattan multifamily high-rise Riverbank West Obtains $94M LoanNEW YORK, NY – The New York and Hartford offices of HFF ( ... doorman and concierge, business center, laundry facilities and a valet dry cleaning service ... centered photo) a 44-story luxury multifamily building in Manhattan. HFF senior managing directors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:53:00

How To Reward A Million Dollar Idea

Two years ago, Noah Weiss, a young programmer who spent the summer working here at Fog Creek Software, came to me with a business idea ... at programming they have spare time at work to read the self-absorbed drivel I publish there. Building ... is not really an ad — it’s providing a community service.” By then I had almost stopped listening. Little [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:03:14

THE WORLD today!

———————————————————————————1. Barack Obama wins Presidential Election and becomes the 44th President of the United States starting January 20 - Hope ... on Americans to help the needed, to contribute to their communities and to take part in public service ... Summers to head his Economic Council and Peter R. Orszog as Director of the Office of Management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:23:08

If a note, apparently from a parliamentary worker, to my thoughts about the implications of a dead parliamentary webserver is correct, ... out some of the possible reasons for the loss of service, but raises others that were so unlikely ... a building as a highly-fortified small suburb) is a pretty big thing, and should be known days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:11:33

Political Economy 101

by Zack Lieberberg Yashiko Sagamori has forwarded to me a reader’s response to one of my recent articles: I also was disappointed in the last post which was written by Zack Lieberberg whom we have seen before. It was a very long piece to just equate President-elect Obama’s desire to tax the rich more than the poor and middle class with [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 02:56:36

January 8, 2009

I logged on this morning to find a note from the Seattle Humane Society (re: a post I made pimping their Free Cats! drive) ... ! A few disclaimers: (1). No, I won’t post shots of the building’s exterior, because I don’t care ... The building was built in the 19-teens and has much of its original hardware, though it’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:13:18

What About My Parents?

I've been laying it all out there lately about receiving annual inheritances and responding to some of the comments one by one. One commenter on my post The Effects of Not Having to Struggle notes: "It sounds like your grandparents are much more successful than your parents. That must have some interesting implications for family dynamics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:58:00

Barnett Offers a Gold Mine of Grand Strategy Nuggets

I am proud to claim that I have been an unabashed supporter of Thomas Barnett and his vision of a grand strategy to achieve a better future for our children. This past week a press release announced the publication of Barnett's third and most important book to date. I have posted the entire release with emphasis on some key points [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 06:22:00

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida

The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:24:17

Step Two - Get My Life the Heck Organized Some More!

Yeah, that's right, get yourself more organized! Hopefully you have been doing a good job managing the clutter in your home this week ... room. You can see my schedule on the left sidebar of this page. It goes like this:Weekly Cleaning ... - we are building up to being able to complete this every week.So, for example, here is my sample weekly cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:56:00

Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice

(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... for Janitors” campaign of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2 in Toronto. “In my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36

Community support wins higher wages for lowest paid cleaners

Community spirit is not yet dead, bringing about positive changes like winning higher wages for some of the London's lowest paid ... clean. Contract cleaners employed in just one building at Canary Wharf were found to come from 29 ... in the cleaning industry, but were often more dissatisfied with a perceived lack of respect. They highlighted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 06:27:28

Untitled

*I thought Lost was new so I posted a picture and explained why I wasn't posting anything else ... meticulously cleaning its firing mechanism. The other stares vacantly out the distant window with arms crossed. The coat of his pinstriped business suit is hung over the back of his chair, specks of blood pepper [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:26:00

If you’re either (a) my friend Jessie or (b) a fan of Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, you’ll get the title.  If you’re neither, then I’m sorry, but we really need to reevaluate our friendship.  I can’t be friends with anyone who hasn’t watched Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (or Clueless… or Super Troopers… or Army of Darkness) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:26:27

Transcript: John McCain on Meet the Press | October 26 | Ten Days to Election

(Source: NBC’s Meet the Press) MR. TOM BROKAW:  Our issues this Sunday:  With just nine days to go, polls show Obama widening his lead over McCain while the Republican vice presidential nominee comes under increased criticism.  What will be McCain’s final message to undecided voters?  We’ll ask the candidate himself [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 17:14:49

JANUARY EVENTS 2009

Jan 16-Feb 20-Avila University presents “Lynneguistics” by Lynne Hodgman, Thornhill Art Gallery, 11901 Wornall Rd, KCMO 64145; Tues-Fri noon to 3pm and by appointment; Free; a colorful, exuberant display of over 3,000 hand-cut glyphs in a variety of configurations. Each glyph is a unique language symbol constructed from mixed-media materials [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 05:11:00

Jury duty STINKS!

Well, its Friday and Steven is STILL in Jury Duty. I am all about doing our Civic Duty, but come on, this is REDICULOUS!!! ... out some of our office space because we will be moving in a few weeks to a new building. I am going ... today, I had to take Preston with me to the office. This is not ideal, but something [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:17:00

A view of history: New Yorkers' dispatches from D.C. on incoming President Obama's inauguration

President George W. Bush spent his last full day in office Monday on the phone, extending a farewell to several world leaders, including Japanese Pri...New Yorkers heeding Bam's call to service The Rev. Cora Taitt will be cleaning her Bronx church's new annex today to make way for a food pantry. Across the city, New Yorkers are heeding Presid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:30:00

Abolish grades -- now

In September 1979, when I arrived on the campus of the University of Tennessee, I didn't need any additional incentive to study other than playing back, in my head, the speech my father gave me before we packed our car and headed up to Knoxville."If I make Dean's List the first quarter," I asked, " [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:39:00

MODERN WONDERS of an Ancient Art Part II (Jul, 1936)

You can read part I here. view additional pages MODERN WONDERS of an Ancient Art Part II By H. W ... iron for architectural purposes makes such a home both possible and practical. As a building material ... for a lifetime of service. In the past six or seven years, several types of buildings have been designed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 04:22:08

An Answer to Prayer

In April of 2002 I was bored. Not just a little bored either, but mind-numbingly, depressingly, discouragingly bored. Having recently been laid off from a job I had held for several years, I was now working at a new job where I was system administrator at a small company in downtown Oakville [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:42:00

The Little Green Schoolhouse

The sixth-graders in Marti Goldstone’s science class at Horace Mann Elementary are working on a project that could save their D.C. public school a lot of money. They are conducting an energy audit of their entire school. They calculate how much energy each classroom, gym, cafeteria, office, etc [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 11:00:17

Big Changes In The Senate As The Parties Gear Up For Another GOP Drubbing In 2010

Yesterday we remarked how a Debbie Wasserman Schultz led cabal of conservative Democrats is already bad mouthing the prospects of the DCCC working to win more seats from Republicans in 2010. They say they want to put all their energy into the incumbent protection racket and not worry about vulnerable Republicans [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:30:00

Riding The Momentum

Riding The Momentum Posted by: Celina Summers in Tips and Tricks Every writer finds it.  It’s rare, but it happens ... -writing things: cleaning the house, feeding the critters, running errands.  Then, I look to my second ... ; dishes pile up in the sink, the house gets a little dusty, the cats and the kids have to whine [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:21:07

Crazy over Maisie

Yesterday, TCM ran a marathon of eight films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Maisie series—a popular film series from 1939 to 1947 that starred glamour gal Ann Sothern as a bold-as-brass Brooklyn showgirl whose frequent forays into unemployment often put her in the center of wacky adventures as she toiled in odd jobs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:45:00

Good News for People who Hate Bad News

Note: I’ve been getting crushed this afternoon with folks asking for a copy of this email that I sent to my subscribers. I’m going to post this one since I can’t possibly get back to all of you out there. However, this is not going to be a regular thing. Don’t expect to see the next 10 emails on Calacanis.com [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 00:43:43

Marc Rich! Again??

Matthews: Bush is Like the Cop Who Shoots an Unarmed ManBy David Neiwert - Crooks and LiarsDiscussing the Bush legacy Friday, Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball came up with a good metaphorMatthews: I found it interesting that the president, who admitted he was wrong about WMDs as a justification for war, called it a "disappointment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:23:00

Building Your First Website: Day 8

(This series of articles is geared for the mom and pop business owner who is building his online storefront for the first time and other newcomers ... banners or linking codes within the affiliate program in order to promote the vendor and its products ... Product or Others’ Digital Products. Digital products include ebooks, online videos, audios [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:15:05

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/13/2008

My favorite story tonight is the one about the Bedouin tribe in north Israel who claim Barack Hussein Obama as a long-lost member.Should be an interesting family reunion…Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, Diana West, Insubria, JD, Kahane loyalist, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 04:59:00

This has really been bothering me

Folks, I believe that the majority of American’s are basically good people and I don’t believe that they will deliberately try and cheat people. But I have as a major interest of mine, investments in real estate and stocks and commodities. No I don’t currently trade or invest as I have no money to do it with, but still I watch CNBC, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:52:04

Stay on Green!

At least twice a week, I drive my 6-year-old niece to school ... unplugged from the office. I did all the holiday stuff, played with my pets, painted a couple rooms, cleaned out some cupboards, and generally relaxed. Now I feel I need to do some of that kind of cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:35:00

Review: Making It All Work

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal development, personal productivity, or entrepreneurship book. As I’ve mentioned many times before, I’m a huge fan of David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. That one simple volume (which I identified as one of the ten books that changed my life) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 20:00:20

Clean Out Anxieties and Stress!

Research shows that clutter (in your home, office, or vehicle) causes stress and increases anxieties ... you know that studies actually show that people who spend at least 20 minutes a day cleaning suffer from less ... to find more time for cleaning as well as ways to keep clutter from getting out of hand in the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:35:19

From Looking to Seeing: Student Learning in the Visual Turn

“Viewing” exercise on the first day of class1 Gordon Parks, "Washington, D.C. Government Charwoman, Aug. 1942" (photograph of Ella Watson, from the Library of Congress). Olivia: The focus of the photograph is of a black cleaning lady. She has a solemn, almost sad, undignified look in her eyes. She does [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:37:06

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CEMENT PLANTS AND GLOBAL WARMING

Can California’s cement industry walk the fine line between regulation and innovation to fight global warming? BY CHRIS AMICO CUPERTINO, California — From the lip of the quarry at Hanson Permanente cement, all of Santa Clara stretches out in panorama. Few plants in California are this close to this many people [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:29:44

The Honor Roll: 20 People That Made an Impact in 2008

We like to do things differently around here, and with every End of the Year Top Whatever List floating around the internet ( ... , Oscar magnet Doubt, and The Little Film About Suicide Clean Up That Could Sunshine Cleaning. Coming ... of - he took the helm of his second feature film, Star Trek, and has since made a job of building [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 06:22:01

Actions report from Greece

Arrests More than 270 people have been arrested in connection to actions, since the beginning of the insurrection, on December 6th, in 15 cities ... noon. Liberated spaces The building of the Journalists' Union is still occupied by young people ... -in in the office of Evangelismos hospital, where Konstantinta Kouneva is being treated. This hospital is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:13:00

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